Increased life for Desire battery - Really works.

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I can take no credit for this as I read about it over on XDA but after trying it out exactly as mentioned I can 110% state my battery improved immediatly. I was usually getting a day tops sometimes loosing all juice around 11pm after being unplugged from around 7.30am. Well I stumbled across this in a thread discussing the Neophyte Rom im using and it actually worked for me. Yesterday after a good 20 - 30 mins of phone calls , lots of emails and texts I went to bed at about 12.40 am and my battery was at 60% still. Now today after being unplugged for 2.5 hrs Ive had around 3 emails 1 text and 4 mins worth of phone calls im still on 96%. I have 3G on all the time 1 email account updates every 30 mins and gmail is push, twitter updates every hour. I dont have wi fi on and my screen brightness is 20%. I am rooted and running SETCPU with the CPU down to minimum when the screen is off, but I had that before also. So all in all try it out and see if it works for you, I think it has for me.

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I can take no credit for this as I read about it over on XDA but after trying it out exactly as mentioned I can 110% state my battery improved immediatly. I was usually getting a day tops sometimes loosing all juice around 11pm after being unplugged from around 7.30am. Well I stumbled across this in a thread discussing the Neophyte Rom im using and it actually worked for me. Yesterday after a good 20 - 30 mins of phone calls , lots of emails and texts I went to be at about 12.40 am and my battery was at 60% still. Now today after being unplugged for 2.5 hrs Ive had around 3 emails 1 text and 4 mins worth of phone calls im still on 96%. I have 3G on all the time 1 email account updates every 30 mins and gmail is push, twitter updates every hour. I dont have wi fi on and my screen brightness is 20%. I am rooted and running SETCPU with the CPU down to minimum when the screen is off, but I had that before also. So all in all try it out and see if it works for you, I think it has for me.

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Would be interesting to see if this works. Currently on the first eight hour charge, i'll report back.

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o also help with Battery Life you can do these steps exactly: 1) Turn your device ON and Charge the device for 8 hours or more 2) Unplug the device and Turn the phone OFF and charge for 1 hour 3) Unplug the device Turn ON wait 2 minutes and Turn OFF and charge for another hour Your battery life should almost double, we have tested this on our devices and other agents have seen a major difference as well.

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I dont think that there is anything that hasnt been already discussed and suggested in previous threads and was recently 'stickied' within the encyclopedia thread ... though it appears to have disappeared.

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I dont think that there is anything that hasnt been already discussed and suggested in previous threads and was recently 'stickied' within the encyclopedia thread ... though it appears to have disappeared.

Basically, take control of alerts and updates... quite simple really

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Did you read the whole passage? Double check and read the part in bold. I also copied and pasted a few posts up.

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I dont think that there is anything that hasnt been already discussed and suggested in previous threads and was recently 'stickied' within the encyclopedia thread ... though it appears to have disappeared.

Basically, take control of alerts and updates... quite simple really

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It's been renamed the Desire FAQ to make it more obvious what it is.

As to this battery trick, it sounds a bit voodoo but I'd still be interested to hear a few people's opinions after trying it!

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Just a little update
I charged my phone normally today after doing the afformentioned method yesterday. My current stats are unplugged for 10hrs 15 mins. only had 4 minutes of voice calls had about 10 texts and 5 emails. Browsed the web a little and my current battery is 78% Im using 3G and email and Twitter auto syncing. It's worked for me.